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Wednesday, 13 April 2016

(vol 3) CHAPTER 07 – “Over The Word Limit”

AWAY FROM THE OFFICE

First off, let me apologise. It irks
me to even consider skipping a blog day, but that is what almost happened. I’ve
spent the last two days away from work on a training course all about learning
to give a training course (yes, it’s just like INCEPTION).

Add to this that I made the
decision to walk home both days (around 60mins) so that I could pick up my son
from nursery (his smile was totally worth the exhaustion) and Mother Nature
deciding to throw a mini two-day summer, and all I can think about right now is
sleep.

But then I thought no, I’m going
to do it. So here we go.

WHEN FLASH JUST ISN’T ENOUGH

In my last post I brought to your
attention three
awesome authors who allowed me to beta read their latest works. It was an
awesome experience and I hope that I can use what I learned from the outside of
their projects to improve the inside of my project(s).

A few days after this I thought
about other work that has been, is currently, or will soon be, published by the
FlashDogs, and it turns out that there’s quite a bit.

It’s because of this that I
decided to make a place
where they can all be collected together. Because it’s awesome that these
people, all brought together by their skill and love of the short, short form
of fiction, all successful in their own right across the Flash Fiction circuit,
are not just content with testing themselves in the limited form.

There’s Craig Anderson with his
trilogy of novella’s, Liz Hedgecock with her collection of bite-sized Sherlock
stories, and Michael Blackbourn with his intelligent and thought provoking
sci-fi shorts.

But who else, I hear someone call
out from the back row.

Well, there’s Tamara Shoemaker
who is currently writing two fantasy trilogies at the same time (madness).

There’s Holly Geely with her own
fantasy trilogy on the go as well as a collection of shorts (which I’ve
recently added to my Kobo).

Let’s not forget Emily June Street
who not only just rereleased The Velocipede Races but is also working on
an epic(!) fantasy series herself (yes, the fantasy genre is well represented).

And, there’s also Margaret Locke,
currently making a name for herself with her period-romance-with-a-twist novels.

These people are just the one’s I
can remember off the top of my head while I sit at my laptop tonight (dinners
nearly ready). I know that there are a few others from the pack who are like
me; close to realising that publishing dream and once their projects are
released, they’ll be going up on the list to.

So if you like what you’ve seen
through the various works already linked on this blog, if you’ve read the
amazing Flash Fiction written by my fellow FlashDogs, or if you’re actually one
of them and have a couple of favourite authors you feel you’d like more from,
check out the OTHER AUTHORS
page. It’s a work in progress. I’m adding authors I’m currently aware of
throughout this week. If you like the fantasy genre then you’ll be well catered
for.

And that’s all for now.

Hope you’re all enjoying the
sunshine while it lasts. I’ll be back in two weeks for an update on my WIP.